Same-Sex Marriage Amendment In Ohio Gets Green Light. Rave If you support gay marriage
Marriage equality advocates in Ohio took one step closer Tuesday to overturning the state's 2004 constitutional amendment that restricts marriages in the state to only those between one man and one woman.
Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine (R) approved the petition language for an amendment that would redefine marriage in Ohio as “a union of two consenting adults, regardless of gender," according to the Columbus Dispatch.
The Freedom to Marry Coalition is now tasked with gathering 385,253 valid signatures of registered Ohio voters in order to put its marriage equality amendment on the Ohio ballot -- a goal that Ian James, the group's co-founder, told The Huffington Post he hopes to achieve by November 2013.
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The Bible does NOT support a theocracy to be raised during the Church Age, so your going on & on about it is a moot point.
You obviously are NOT scrutinizing the Bible correctly, as noted in my first paragraph.
You stated, "No matter how you try to justify it by citing contextual realities of the time, the fact remains that a religious law compelling the marriage of a rape victim to their rapist has no place in modern law."
This is precisely the kind of statements that tells me it's time to say goodbye to you. You are unable to discuss an issue intelligently. btw, the RCC is not Christian, so I'm kinda doubting you were ever a Christian to begin with.
You claim the Roman Catholic Church isn't Christian? And you doubt MY knowledge of Christianity? Wow... http://www.religionfacts.com/...
No, the RCC is NOT Christian. They may claim to be Christian, just as many Mormons & Jehovah's Witnesses, but they don't pass the "Christian" test regarding the Trinity & salvation according to the Bible. They add to & subtract from the Bible at the Pope's whims.
And throughout the middle ages, Catholocism was the whole of Christianity, so I'm not sure when it is you think they suddenly stopped even being a Christian denomination. They still believe in "the father, the son and the holy spirit", so I don't see where they fail on the trinity. What exactly are your "salvation" standards that they're not meeting? And they don't add and subtract from the bible - they simply (eventually) fold new knowledge into how they translate it.
Ultimately though, you seem to be confusing your personal beliefs with objective knowledge about Christianity. Because YOU don't count the Roman Catholic Church as a Christian denomination does not make it so. Because YOU think only those who study the Hebrew and Koine Greek versions of the bible qualify as "real" Christians does not make it so. Because YOU have deemed someone "not spiritually mature" does not make it so.
And none of that changes the fact that there is no way to justify a bible passage calling for rape victims to marry their rapist. The link you provided attempted to do so by pointing out that since women were considered property back then and a raped woman was considered damaged goods, then forcing their rapist to marry them was doing the women a favor. I mean holy crap. THAT justifies it? I don't think so.
And NO, Catholicism has never been the ONLY Christian group. That's where educating yourself comes in handy. Do some research.
Catholics believe Mary was the "immaculate conception". That's blasphemous, as Jesus was the "immaculate conception". They believe that water baptism is required for salvation, as well as asking Jesus to come into their hearts. There is no scriptural basis for this. They believe that one can be saved AFTER physical death, so they pray for the salvation of the deceased. They believe that they can pray to saints in order to get help from God. There is nothing scriptural to support this. They believe that dying infants must be "sprinkled" & given the sacrament of the last rites in order to go to heaven.
I could go on & on with the things that the RCC has added & subtracted from God's word, but I don't want to bore you. These aren't MY beliefs, made up by me; these are what God says. Humans cannot just go making up stuff, taking verses out of context to fit their own agenda, & making arbitrary demands on God. God doesn't work that way.
God has NEVER condoned slavery, rape, & a plethora of other things that He is blamed for by anti-theists like yourself. Prior to Jesus incarnation, G...&
And NO, Catholicism has never been the ONLY Christian group. That's where educating yourself comes in handy. Do some research.
Catholics believe Mary was the "immaculate conception". That's blasphemous, as Jesus was the "immaculate conception". They believe that water baptism is required for salvation, as well as asking Jesus to come into their hearts. There is no scriptural basis for this. They believe that one can be saved AFTER physical death, so they pray for the salvation of the deceased. They believe that they can pray to saints in order to get help from God. There is nothing scriptural to support this. They believe that dying infants must be "sprinkled" & given the sacrament of the last rites in order to go to heaven.
I could go on & on with the things that the RCC has added & subtracted from God's word, but I don't want to bore you. These aren't MY beliefs, made up by me; these are what God says. Humans cannot just go making up stuff, taking verses out of context to fit their own agenda, & making arbitrary demands on God. God doesn't work that way.
God has NEVER condoned slavery, rape, & a plethora of other things that He is blamed for by anti-theists like yourself. Prior to Jesus incarnation, God took the people the way He found them. These were people who believed in all kinds of pagan gods, having all kinds of evil & sinful practices. God created humans, but He gave them a free-will, which means if He was going to let the "good" people make their own choices, He had to do the same for the "evil" people. Most suffering by humans is done as a result of their own negative volition. In other words, we "reap what we sow".
The "rape" issue that you bring up (which has nothing to do with homosexuality, which is the issue in our discussion) is explained. That you don't want to understand it or accept it is why these type of discussions with unbelievers are just a smoke screens. They (you) are just looking for excuses, looking for "gotcha" stuff. They're (you) are not interested in truth. If it's not this, it will be something else that you find contentious.
YOUR issue is not how the Bible works, why did God do this or that, but your rejection of Jesus Christ.
Well that'll be difficult since there's no such thing as "God".
As for your laundry list of differences, that's why a variety of Christian denominations exist. Because they all have variation in their interpretations of the bible. But that doesn't negate their being Christian denominations. You just deny their validity, which is your prerogative. But your personal feelings don't impact objective reality, no matter how much you want them to.
Look into the middle ages, when virtually all of Christianity fell under the Roman Catholic Church's purview. Here's a head-start for you: http://www.middle-ages.org.uk...
Wow, your obsession to parrot wing nut talking points is rather obvious. Or are the Greeks and labor unions forcing people to gay marry?
>Makes me sick.
Mentally?
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